Stand for drawing beer



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J. HINKEL. STAND FOR DRAWING BEER, 680.

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MWHGB UNITED STATES PATENT UFFICE.

JOHN HINKEL, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

STAND FOR DRAWING BEER, 800.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 267,688, dated November 21, 1882.

Application filed June 24, 1882.

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, J OHN HINKEL, of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, and in the State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stands for Drawing Beer, Ale, &c.; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to stands for drawing beer and other beverages; and it consists in certain peculiarities of construction, as will be fully set forth hereinafter.

In the drawings, Figure l is a front view of my improved stand. Fig. 2 is a top view, and Figs. 3 and 4. are details, Fig. 3 being a section I on the line as at, and Fig. 4 a section on the line y y, of Fig. 1.

The skeleton of my improved stand is com. posed of corner-pieces, A, of angle-iron, that extend from the top of the structure down to the floor, upon which it rests, connected by horizontal strips B, which in turn are braced and connected by vertical strips 0. The upper ends of the angle-iron corner-pieces A clasp between them a trough, E, each end of which rests upon and opens into the upper end of a vertical pipe, D, that passes down through the floor of the room in which the structure is placed into the room below, and in this room the kegs or other vessels that the beer or other beverage is to be drawn fromare kept. The lower ends of these pipes D are closed by bottom pieces, which are perforated to receive small pipes E, (any number of which desired may be employed,) that extend up from the kegs or vessels, (not shown,) suitable watertight couplingssuch, for instance, as are shown in Fig. 4-being provided to prevent leakage, and the pipes E are carried up through the pipes D and distributed in the trough E, with their ends projecting down through it to receive the draw-cocks H. In Fig. 2 I have shown all the small pipes E projected up through one of the large pipes D, while in Fig. 1 I have shown these small pipes distributed and part of them projected up through each of two pipes Drlocated at opposite ends of the stand; but the number and location of the said pipes is immaterial, so long as the beverage-pipes are within the large pipes.

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' The trough E is provided with a suitable overflow-pipe, E and may be supplied with water from any suitable inlet pipe or hose, and the pipes D have at their bottoms outlets D, controlled by cocks in the usual way. When the stand is in use, I fill the pipes D and trough E with ice and water, which covers the pipes distributed therein, and regulates the temperature of the beer and other beverages by changing the proportion of ice and ice-water from time to time-that is, when the beer is too warm, I either add more ice or draw off some of the water, or, if it is too cool, Iincrease the amount of water or diminish the amount of ice in the trough, and thus I can get any temperature I may desire.

I design concealing the trough E by an ornamental facing, ff, preferably of marble or its imitation, and also to conceal the skeleton frame and pipes D by like facings, as shown at F and G.

H is a rod, which may be either solid or tubular. Its ends it are bent at right angles to the length of its main portion and extend along grooves in the inner faein gs of the pipes D, back through the backing F, to receive securing-nuts h, and this rod supports a shelf, H forthe glasses while they are being filled.

Extending from the center of rod 1H, through the backing F, is a pipe, 9, that has a cock ex tending down from it to supply water for washing the glasses.

. K is another rod for supporting a shelf. It is similar in every'respect to rod H, except in length. Its shelf L is divided at its center to receive between the ends of the parts a basin, L, which has of course an overflow-pipe for leading the surplus water away. The central portion of rod K is supported by braces K K.

My device will be found to be very effective for its purpose, as well as being of a convenient shape for being located in a saloon.

I am aware that coils of pipe have been embedded in ice, in receptacles for the same, and that these pipes have served to connect the beverage-reservoirs with the draw-cocks; but with such devices the beverage was made very cold, frequently too cold where the coils were exposed to the ice, and as there was very little circulation in the pipes the temperature of the beverage in the coils was not imparted to the beverage in the pipes outside of the coils, and therefore with that arrangement the beverage varied in temperature constantly. In my device I use no coils Whatever, and I do not propose to change the temperature of the beverage after it leaves its cask; but by leading the pipes up through a column of ice-water 1 cause the beverage to retain the temperature it had While in the cask, which of course is kept packed in ice. Hence, no matter how much beer or other beverage may be drawn through my stand, the last glass will have the same temperature as the first.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters .Paten t, is

The combination, in a beverage-stand, of pipes D, having closed lower ends, and trough E, with the beverage-pipes passing up through the pipes D and into trough E, the said trough 20 March, 1882, in the presence of two witnesses. 25'

JOHN HINKEL.

Witnesses:

STANLEY S. S'roU'r, HAROLD G. UNDEaWooD. 

